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Consider the Possibilities

Monday, April 07, 2008

Physicist Michio Kaku explains how scientific advances could be making impossible things like time travel and telepathy possible. Also: Stefan Merrill Block’s debut novel. Isabel Allende on her second memoir, The Sum of Our Days. And Nicaragua's leading writer and former Vice President Sergio Ramirez talks about the complicated history of his country.

In Isabel Allende’s second memoir, The Sum of Our Days, she writes about love, marriage, the writing life, her close family relationships, and the difficulties of dealing with her daughter Paula’s death.

Event: Isabel Allende will be speaking and signing books Monday, April 7 at 7 pm ...

Sergio Ramirez is a leading Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served as vice president of the country from 1984 until 1990. His book on the history of Nicaragua, Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, has now been translated into English.

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